Thursday, June 23, 2011

In 1987, while serving as the president of the National Career Development Association, I had an opportunity to discuss various issues confronting career counselors from across the United States, particularly the issues of the changing demographics of this country and the impact it would have on counseling in general and career counseling specifically. Pada tahun 1987, saat bekerja sebagai presiden National Career Development Association, saya memiliki kesempatan untuk membahas berbagai isu yang dihadapi konselor karir dari seluruh Amerika Serikat, khususnya isu perubahan demografi negara ini dan dampak bagi konseling secara umum dan khusus pada karir konseling. I read and rejected several ideas about how best to tackle the issue of cross-cultural counseling. Saya membaca dan menolak beberapa gagasan tentang bagaimana cara terbaik untuk mengatasi isu-isu konseling lintas-budaya. I happened on a report of English consultants who helped an African government design a health care intervention that failed miserably.

In 1988, I embarked on a crash course in work and human values by reading literally dozens of research articles about values. Pada tahun 1988, saya mulai membaca secara harfiah puluhan artikel penelitian tentang nilai-nilai. Some of those articles discussed the differences in values in various cultures, including the impact those values had on the decision-making process, work satisfaction, and so forth. Beberapa dari artikel tersebut membahas perbedaan nilai dalam berbagai budaya, termasuk dampak nilai-nilai dalam proses pembuatan keputusan, kepuasan kerja, dan sebagainya. I also discovered that some people in the field of communications had focused on variations of communication styles based on differences in cultural values. Saya juga menemukan bahwa beberapa orang di bidang komunikasi yang berfokus pada variasi gaya komunikasi berdasarkan perbedaan nilai-nilai budaya. This chapter is the culmination of a long process of discovery in an attempt to ascertain how effective, sensitive career counseling could be offered in a cross-cultural context. Bab ini merupakan puncak dari proses panjang penemuan dalam upaya untuk memastikan seberapa efektif, konseling karir bisa diterapkan dalam konteks lintas-budaya.